Hudl 2

[bakerstreet]

Ordered mine last night. I went for the blue one Should be arriving at the local store tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to having a play with it. I'm coming form a rather ancient iPad 1, so I'm interested to see how I get on with it.

We ordered an iPad Air in January from Groupon and that was a complete disaster from start to finish. In fact, I don't think I'll risk buying anything above £50 from Groupon again. Their customer service was appalling. The Hudle isn't exactly a replacement for that failed iPad purchase, but it means I can watch TV on the train with a decent sized screen

[Lord Pikey]

Has anyone else's Hudl 2 started forgetting the time? Mine on automatic is randomly out by hours and it looses time when set manually.

[bakerstreet]

Well I've had a play with the Hudl and so far I'm quite impressed. It feels nice in the hand and the screen quality is leagues ahead of my old iPad. It does feel quite heavy for its size and I can see the next one becoming slimmer and hopefully lighter.

Haven't got all the apps set up yet, but for basic web surfing and e-mail, it seems fine. Going to try and load some films on it later on tonight.

I know there is a stigma regarding a tesco branded tablet, but at the moment, I don't have anything to complain about

[DukeDickson]

The

bakerstreet said:

Well I've had a play with the Hudl and so far I'm quite impressed. It feels nice in the hand and the screen quality is leagues ahead of my old iPad. It does feel quite heavy for its size and I can see the next one becoming slimmer and hopefully lighter.

Haven't got all the apps set up yet, but for basic web surfing and e-mail, it seems fine. Going to try and load some films on it later on tonight.

I know there is a stigma regarding a tesco branded tablet, but at the moment, I don't have anything to complain about

As long as people accept what it is/isn't, for the money & vouchers it is more than acceptable. Does appear to be an own brand LG tab, which is OK.


iPad Air nicer, yes, but is 3x the price. IMHO, if I'm spending that kind of money, it would have to be Surface Pro 3 or presumably impending 4.

[motco]

DukeDickson said:

The

bakerstreet said:

Well I've had a play with the Hudl and so far I'm quite impressed. It feels nice in the hand and the screen quality is leagues ahead of my old iPad. It does feel quite heavy for its size and I can see the next one becoming slimmer and hopefully lighter.

Haven't got all the apps set up yet, but for basic web surfing and e-mail, it seems fine. Going to try and load some films on it later on tonight.

I know there is a stigma regarding a tesco branded tablet, but at the moment, I don't have anything to complain about

As long as people accept what it is/isn't, for the money & vouchers it is more than acceptable. Does appear to be an own brand LG tab, which is OK.


iPad Air nicer, yes, but is 3x the price. IMHO, if I'm spending that kind of money, it would have to be Surface Pro 3 or presumably impending 4.

I believe it's made by Pegatron

[MarkRSi]

It's so good even my brother, who is an Apple snob, has bought one

[NiceCupOfTea]

Anybody know where you can still get it for £99? Seems to be back to £129 at Tesco...

[CB2152]

I believe Tesco are selling refurbished ones online with a guarantee, but that's the only way, short of buying it second hand from someone else.

The £99 deal was for easter weekend, and ended Tuesday night.

[stevoknevo]

Lord said:

Has anyone else's Hudl 2 started forgetting the time? Mine on automatic is randomly out by hours and it looses time when set manually.

It's a known bug but only affects certain devices. The last update was meant to sort that and a charging issue, but hasn't for all devices.

[stevoknevo]

Wee link for optimising the Hudl 2 to get the best out of it, he goes on to talk about using it for gaming, however the first part were he discusses installing a new launcher instead of the Tesco launcher, and deleting/disabling certain apps is the pertinent part - he basically gets rid of most things, but if you use some of the apps then leave them keep them.

Makes a noticeable difference to the smoothness of the device compared to Tesco's choppy launcher and unmoveable widgets - does nowt to improve the poor battery life though

http://www.jdgleaver.co.uk/blog/2014/11/05/the_hud...

[uk_vette]

the new huddle benchmarks at around 28000.
up from 18900 for the old original huddle.

I would like one if It had sim slot for phone use.

My Lenovo 850A+ phone, has benchmarked, at 35600.
It is octacore processor

[MarkRSi]

stevoknevo said:

Lord said:

Has anyone else's Hudl 2 started forgetting the time? Mine on automatic is randomly out by hours and it looses time when set manually.

It's a known bug but only affects certain devices. The last update was meant to sort that and a charging issue, but hasn't for all devices.

That's odd, mines just started doing this tonight, only thing I've done recently is root the thing

[stevoknevo]

MarkRSi said:

stevoknevo said:

Lord said:

Has anyone else's Hudl 2 started forgetting the time? Mine on automatic is randomly out by hours and it looses time when set manually.

It's a known bug but only affects certain devices. The last update was meant to sort that and a charging issue, but hasn't for all devices.

That's odd, mines just started doing this tonight, only thing I've done recently is root the thing

My one has done it a couple of times, reboot sorts it. Had the charging issue were it sticks and won't fully charge a few times also, charging it switched off seems to work fine.

[Dino D]

How can I move things from the device to the micro sd card to make more memory?
I've moved all that it let's me (the apps and games) but the device storage is still almost full so cannot install new games etc on it.

[bakerstreet]

Mrs Bakerstreet picked me up the official flip case for the Hudl yesterday. I appreciate that its geared at protecting it from toddlers and similar, but it really is just too thick and heavy. I swear its turned an 8in tablet into something that weighs nearly a kilo!

Thankfully, she kept the recipe, so I think we are going to send it back and I'll get something slimmer and ligher on Ebay.

Used it on the train this morning with out case to watch Dads Army on iPlayer

[MarkRSi]

Now USB OTG doesn't work on mine... I can connect keyboard/USB devices etc. to my Xperia Z1 but my Hudl 2 has stopped playing ball.

ETA seems to have fixed itself without doing anything special...

Edited by MarkRSi on Tuesday 5th May 17:53

[MarkRSi]

DukeDickson said:

BigsimonY said:

DukeDickson said:

BigsimonY said:

Oh dear.....Looks my hudl will be going back for a replacement. Im suffering the 100% battery issue. I took if of charge and was browsing for a hour and the battery was still showing 100%. Put it on charge and the light went green(not charging) and refused to charge. Seem a common problem and its a replacement unit you get.

Try running it down to switch off, then charge. Seemed to work for me IIRC.

has the problem come back? I have just tried this and yup, your right its charging now....It is supposed to be getting picked up on Wednesday, will be without it for 2 weeks. Wondering if its worth sending away if its just a glitch that can be solved by letting it run down....

No, hasn't reappeared at all for me. I think I got the suggestion from the MoDaCo Hudl 2 forum, so may be worth checking there for other experiences.

How have your Hudls been since doing this?

My Hudl has been fine (odd hiccup aside, see above) but my mum has been through 3 different Hudl 2s and every one has managed to get stuck at 100%. She only uses the stock Hudl charger and only has a few basic apps on the device (mine on the other hand gets charged randomly using any random USB-based charger, is rooted and loaded with as much crap as I can cram onto the device, yet hasn't seen this issue).

[Welshbeef]

Dino D said:

How can I move things from the device to the micro sd card to make more memory?
I've moved all that it let's me (the apps and games) but the device storage is still almost full so cannot install new games etc on it.

If just bought two 32Gb micro SD cards for this with the objective of saving all the SkyGo films and cartoons for my little one.
Put it in tried to download but it kept saying its full. I worked out how you get to the detail of the apps and there is a button to "move to SD" but SkyGo is greyed out! Lots of other apps are not. So what's the issue?


I need 2x 32 GB and 2x 16Gb for a couple of weeks holiday overseas as once you have viewed anything on Sky go it deletes so load it up with lots of stuff happy days. Sadly this seems to be an utter nightmare.

What am I doing wrong?

[Taita]

Welshbeef said:

Dino D said:

How can I move things from the device to the micro sd card to make more memory?
I've moved all that it let's me (the apps and games) but the device storage is still almost full so cannot install new games etc on it.

If just bought two 32Gb micro SD cards for this with the objective of saving all the SkyGo films and cartoons for my little one.
Put it in tried to download but it kept saying its full. I worked out how you get to the detail of the apps and there is a button to "move to SD" but SkyGo is greyed out! Lots of other apps are not. So what's the issue?


I need 2x 32 GB and 2x 16Gb for a couple of weeks holiday overseas as once you have viewed anything on Sky go it deletes so load it up with lots of stuff happy days. Sadly this seems to be an utter nightmare.

What am I doing wrong?

Not sure if related as I thought it was a switch in the app developer settings to let you move it to SD card (maybe some licencing code they use doesn't work, I don't know the detail).

Google have apparently also disabled the ability for apps to move items to the SD card. So to move all my pr0n (!!!) to my SD card means using the UTTERLY dire Android FIle Manager on OS X to manually move it. Previously I could copy paste with Astaro etc.

Might just boot an old windows laptop up instead.

[DukeDickson]

MarkRSi said:

DukeDickson said:

BigsimonY said:

DukeDickson said:

BigsimonY said:

Oh dear.....Looks my hudl will be going back for a replacement. Im suffering the 100% battery issue. I took if of charge and was browsing for a hour and the battery was still showing 100%. Put it on charge and the light went green(not charging) and refused to charge. Seem a common problem and its a replacement unit you get.

Try running it down to switch off, then charge. Seemed to work for me IIRC.

has the problem come back? I have just tried this and yup, your right its charging now....It is supposed to be getting picked up on Wednesday, will be without it for 2 weeks. Wondering if its worth sending away if its just a glitch that can be solved by letting it run down....

No, hasn't reappeared at all for me. I think I got the suggestion from the MoDaCo Hudl 2 forum, so may be worth checking there for other experiences.

How have your Hudls been since doing this?

My Hudl has been fine (odd hiccup aside, see above) but my mum has been through 3 different Hudl 2s and every one has managed to get stuck at 100%. She only uses the stock Hudl charger and only has a few basic apps on the device (mine on the other hand gets charged randomly using any random USB-based charger, is rooted and loaded with as much crap as I can cram onto the device, yet hasn't seen this issue).

Only issues I seem to have now are occasionally sulky micro USB/charger connection, which could be either wire or other end, plus hesitant start up when charging cable pulled out and trying to start up (though not often & just needs leaving a tiny while if it does freak out).

Overall, still a bargain for the money, if you can live with the battery life & dimensions.